[2][3][4] He died in a firefight on Faylaka Island, with United States Marines on October 8, 2002.

A U.S. Marine was also killed in the incident as was Al Kandari's fellow fighter Jassem al-Hajiri.

Anas Al Kandari's father made millions, until the stock bubble burst and he went bankrupt.

Al Kandari is reported to have fasted before the attack—which was triggered by recent broadcasts of the dead and wounded in a town in the Gaza Strip that had been bombarded by Israel.

[2][4] Bell reports that Jabarah had traveled to Afghanistan with Anas Al Kandari in 2000.